A U.S. citizen is scheduled to be released from an Afghan prison as the State Department and FBI faced a deadline to answer allegations they ordered his torture and manipulated the Afghan judicial system.

An Iranian diplomat freed 2 months after being abducted in Iraq accused the CIA of torturing him during his detention, state television reported. The US immediately denied any involvement in the Iranian's disappearance or release.

The US admitted it was actively working to undermine Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. Officially Washington does not support regime change, a US state department report acknowledged it was supporting opposition politicians in the country and

A second-generation Egyptian-American, he grew up speaking Arabic at home, graduated from UCLA with a political science degree and then spent five months in Egypt in an elite federal scholarship program to encourage careers in national security.

Newsday reports, "Some crucial computer evidence against notorious terrorist suspect Ramzi Yousef has been destroyed, and the FBI has begun an investigation into whether the CIA is responsible..." Another timeline here.

The Boston Herald reports that an internal CIA report has concluded that the agency is "partially culpable" for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing because it helped train and support some of the bombers. (Believe this is what's called

Despite the hype surrounding the first public appearance by Valerie Plame Wilson last week, the testimoney that was most indicting of the Bush adminstration's handling of the CIA lead controversy came not from the former CIA agent but

In their rush to cover the long-awaited testimony of Valerie Plame, few reporters apparently bothered to stick around the Capitol Hill hearing room yesterday to witness the just as shocking testimony of a much less heralded insider named James Knodel

Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail to the White

Under-oath testimony by Valerie Plame-Wilson in the House Oversight Committee on-going right now. Recurring theme over and over again: She was covert, covert, covert when her identity was outed and her cover was blown --- for the first time in histor

A network of US allies in East Africa secretly have transferred to prisons in Somalia and Ethiopia at least 80 people who were captured in Kenya while fleeing the recent war in Somalia, according to human rights advocates here.

The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials

The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials

ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed

Armed with fresh intelligence, the CIA is moving additional man power and equipment into Pakistan in the effort to find Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri, US officials tell ABC News. "Reports that the trail has gone stone cold are

A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld a refusal to hear the case of a Lebanese-born German man who says he was tortured by the CIA, citing national security reasons.
Khaled el-Masri claims was detained by the CIA for several months in 2004 o

President Bush has decided that the U.S. government is now going to talk to Syria. The reason the president has steadfastly refused to talk to Syria before now is that Syria, he has repeatedly emphasized, is a state sponsor of terrorism.

The US will refuse any Italian extradition request for CIA agents indicted in the alleged abduction of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, a senior US official said Wednesday. "We've not got an extradition request from Italy. If we got an extradi

On his last day in CIA custody, Marwan Jabour, and accused al-Qaeda paymaster, was stripped naked, seated in a chair and videotaped by agency officers. Afterward, he was shackled and blindfolded, headphones were put over his ears,

A senior U.S. administration official warned that ongoing inquiries into secret CIA activities in the European Union may undermine intelligence cooperation between the United States and European nations.

A jury finished a fourth day of deliberating in the perjury trial of former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, after the judge dismissed one member who said she was exposed to outside information about the case.

Here's a detailed timeline of CIA operation which called for conducting covert operations with Iraq as part of a larger effort to overthrow Hussein's government. (Funny, no mention of WMD's. Also, Gen Franks rejected it)

In the fall of 2003, as a federal criminal probe was just getting underway to determine who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the then-chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, soug

The forecast called for heavy snow on the route home, so the three pilots who had just flown a covert CIA-sponsored "extraordinary rendition" flight were forced to stay an extra night at the Gran Melia Victoria, a luxury hotel overlooking t

A former Iranian ambassador and Islamic Republic insider has provided intriguing details to Asia Times about US covert operations inside Iran aimed at destabilizing the country and toppling the regime - or preparing for an American attack.